10 thoughts on “Canucks This Week – Week of Feb. 22, 2021 (final results)”

1. I don’t use Twitter, so I guess I miss a lot of the hating, but I see some in other places. I find it pretty annoying when people start to feel like they ‘own’ the athlete. Geez, people, if someone’s injured, or tired, or sick, it’s not really your right to blast them. This is probably from people who stay home from work ‘sick’ when they want a day off.
   I agree Genie could use some matches, but again, I guess it’s her decision, along with her team. We never really know what someone else is going through.
   Steph, I also appreciate all your reporting from everywhere you go. I’m sure all the travel is wearing, especially at this time. It’s nice to get the goods on the Canadians, and where they are at.

   1. I’ll catch up on all the Canadian news the next two weeks while I’m quarantining. I was absolutely swamped with TV and radio stuff. Barely had time to write.
      The trip home was … pretty rough. Especially the part through the U.S. SO many people who look like they’re heading to, or coming back, from holidays. Sigh.
      Bouchard doesn’t really have a team. She’s had a few occasional coaches in the last year, but no one steady.

2. Hi Stephanie,
   Thanks for being willing to travel and working as the eyes and ears for Canadian tennis fans during your time Down Under. I’m not on Twitter but I read it, and it seems like there’s a Iittle too much negativity toward Bianca with pulling out of tournaments. If she is injured, she is injured and needs to prepare and enter tournaments when she is ready and her team is in agreement. The injuries to me are not necessarily a Milos-like issue, I think it’s more about time on court. Since 2019 Auckland, almost half (47%) of her matches have gone 3 sets and that’s way more than the tour average of about a third going the distance. When she’s in these three set matches, they’re all battles, and with a good 21-7 record, but it’s still taxing when the rallies are long battles which has been the case before and after her return. Just thought it might be something to share with the haters.

   1. I had a conversation with her about this very thing in Melbourne. Because she wasn’t happy at all the speculation out there. I told her that the cone of silence from her team in terms of information about anything was not helpful – because whenever you create a vacuum, someone is going to fill it. Usually with nonsense.
      Seems that didn’t help much.
      The haters are going to find something to hate, no matter what facts or knowledge or context you give them. I’ve learned this much from too many years on Twitter. There’s no solution.
      But while your theory is interesting, it’s incomplete. Her junior career was injury-filled as well, and that happened a long time before 2019. But I agree that her game is tough on the body.

      1. Do the people who dump on Bianca think that she likes to be injured? I’m sure she would rather be playing matches than rehabbing. Some people just have fragile bodies that break down more often, & unfortunately Bianca seems to be one of those.

         1. I don’t know what people on social media think most of the time. Sometimes I suspect they don’t think at all, just peck away on their phones because they’re ticked off at something in their own lives.

3. Sorry, forgot to ask. Wasn’t Leila Annie Fernandez supposed to play Adelaide?

   1. Playing Adelaide is … complicated. I spoke to her late last week when she was still in Melbourne. And it was unclear.
      The list of withdrawals from that tournament is a lot longer than the list of those who are playing.

4. Is it true that Bianca, also, withdrew from Doha & Dubai? I thought that maybe she had withdrawn from Adelaide because of the blisters she had treated in the semis of the Philip Island tournament, but if she is not playing Doha & Dubai, it must be something more serious.
   Re. Genie – why would she withdraw if she needs matches? Tks.

   1. I put it on Twitter myself, so yes, it’s true.

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